what happens to streaming when flash player goes away at years end?

AT&T has posted there will be a replacement ready but haven't said anything about when it will be out.

hope your right. but if your not do you think we will see some kind of a refund. why not do the replacement now? its only a little over a month away and this is they only way I can view their content.

thanks for the info. now I can find a good service for streaming and get rid of this crappy company. you are totally right, what was I thinking?

Well if all you care about is streaming, then DirecTV is not for you. They are a satellite TV company.

However in case you misunderstood anything, I was not saying the streaming perks would go away. Only making the point that there is no charge for those perks as we pay for TV by satellite, so we are still getting what we pay for.

As for why not the replacement now, we can only speculate. Licensing agreements, official deadline, any final bugs being worked out, etc. are just some possibilities. I do hope they provide the official notice before Flash ends so we are prepared for the changeover. If not, well not a big deal. I got DirecTV for the satellite service itself. Not all of us have good enough internet (or internet at all) to rely on streaming being our primary delivery method.

you are correct, time to get off the old and get into the new att tv hear i come

If that works for you then great. Though DirecTV reaches everywhere that internet does not. We all have the sky after all. A proper baseline of stable internet nationwide is decades, if not generations, away from a reality. Until ISPs work on networking between them and truly supporting rural areas, this is how the options will continue working.

I look forward to sometime down the road where different delivery methods could fully compliment each other instead of trying to be competing methods. But as Flash reaches end of life, we shall see how the new option works to compliment DirecTV.